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Mesoblattina cretacea

Insecta - Blattodea - Mesoblattinidae

Taxonomy
Mesoblattina cretacea was named by Hong (1982). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Sample II8L477, Xiagou, Qingquan Town, Yumen City, which is in an Aptian lacustrine mudstone in the Xiagou Formation of China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1982Mesoblattina cretacea Hong p. 68 figs. Pl 8, figs 1,2; text-fig 52

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
—Solumblattodea
superfamilyBlattoidea
familyMesoblattinidae
genusMesoblattina()
speciescretacea

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Mesoblattina cretacea Hong 1982
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Late/Upper Aptian or 122.46000 to 113.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Aptian122.46 - 113.0China (Gansu) Mesoblattina cretacea (type locality: 155013)